The Visegrád Group

The Visegrád Group (V4) was created in February 1991 at a summit between Poland, Hungary and (then) Czechoslovakia, at Visegrád, in Hungary.

It was originally conceived as a mutual support organisation to help smooth accession to the EU, after the member states gained independence from Soviet influence. The V4 survived its members joining both the EU and Nato, and evolved into an intergovernmental forum. It has no permanent (...)